[Full-disclosure] Anyone noticing an increase in IOS HTTP scanning?

[Hugh Brown]

nms at metafore.ca wrote:

> I have been getting at least 40 IOS HTTP Unauth Command Execution scans
> in the last 12 hours. Every one has come from a different source IP,
> but they are all located in Korea.
> They are all trying to execute GET /level/16/exec/-///pwd HTTP/1.0 .
> The stupid thing is, they are trying this on a bunch of web servers.

I saw the exact same thing here, except that the IP addresses seem to
come from all over the place, judging by the TLDs and WHOIS info:
Slovenia, Israel, China, France...

> Has anyone else seen something like this? Before last night, there
> had never been one of these on this network.

Never not once.

-- 
Hugh Brown
Network Administrator, Dyaptive Systems
hbrown at dyaptive.com